70. Among these artizans, the weaver, the ironsmith, the goldsmith, the carpenter, and the mason necessarily took the principal rank, and on their occupations the more refined arts were wholesomely based, so that the five businesses may be more completely expressed thus:—
The weaver and embroiderer,
The ironsmith and armourer.
The goldsmith and jeweller,
The carpenter and engineer,
The stonecutter and painter.
You have only once to turn over the leaves of Lionardo's sketch-book, in the Ambrosian Library, to see how carpentry is connected with engineering,—the architect was always a stonecutter, and the stonecutter not often practically separate, as yet, from the painter, and never so in general conception of function. You recollect, at a much later period, Kent's description of Cornwall's steward:
"Kent. You cowardly rascal!—nature disclaims in thee, a tailor made thee!
Cornwall. Thou art a strange fellow—a tailor make a man?
Kent. Ay, sir; a stonecutter, or a painter, could not have made him so ill; though they had been but two hours at the trade."
